Fugue on “MUSANIM”

Here is a cryptogrammic fugue based on the letters of Stephen Malinowski's YouTube channel &lrdquo;MUSANIM”. This piece is dedicated to Stephen Malinowski, with whom I have collaborated with on this piece.

Each letter is mapped using the French method of the musical cryptogram:

A B C D E F GH I J K L M NO P Q R S T UV W X Y Z

and so

M = FU = GS = EA = AN = GI = BM = F

The letters in the first row tell me what pitch to use. In the subject, I've inserted just two notes as a trill suffix to provide more interest to the melodic contour. This fugue features two countersubjects and two stretti: one with two voices, and another with three.